Anger is brief madness
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
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.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.