It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.