The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.