Luck cannot change birth.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.