To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

The gods behold all righteous actions.