Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.