Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.