Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

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

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.