You are judged of by what you possess.

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.