The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.