For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily