My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.