Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.