Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

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

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.