You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.