Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.