Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
To have slaved so many years for nothing!
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.