Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
Each man the architect of his own fate.