Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
Be as you wish to seem.
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.