While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.