Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.