Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium