He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

Don't just think, do.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.