The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.