He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Leave the rest to the gods.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Anger is a short madness.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Faults are soon copied.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?