One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Men who only live to eat.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.