Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.