Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.