And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

A good death does honour to a whole life.