Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

While we teach, we learn.

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.

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.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.