All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.