Gifts are like hooks.
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
Laugh, if thou art wise.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.