If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.