O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.