No one can keep a mask on long.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling