To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.