For the wise man, every day is a festival.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.