It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .