Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.