What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.