If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.