Luck never made a man wise.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.