Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
There is no excellency without difficulty.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.