There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.