It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
One genius has made many clever artists.
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
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.
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.