Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.