It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.