"Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight."

"Often they benefit who suffer wrong."

"In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength."

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"In an easy cause any man may be eloquent."

"What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please."

"What is without periods of rest will not endure."

"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

"There is a god within us."

"Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

"Time is the devourer of all things."

"Either do not attempt at all or go through with it."

"The gods behold all righteous actions."

"A woman is always buying something."

"Tears at times have the weight of speech."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky."

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

"Right it is to be taught even by the enemy."

"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage."

"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."

"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."

"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."

"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."

"Neglect of appearance becomes men."

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."

"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."

"There is a certain pleasure in weeping."

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

"If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love."

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop."

"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."

"The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

"Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenacious care,had probed all things, he taught-- to those who gatheredin silence and amazement-- what he'd learnedof the beginnings of the universe,of what caused things to happen, and what istheir nature: what god is, whence come the snows,what is the origin of lightning bolts--whether it is the thundering winds or Jovethat cleave the cloudbanks-- and what is the cause of earthquakes, and what laws control the courseof stars: in sum, whatever had been hid,Pythagoras revealed."

"The burden which is well borne becomes light."

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times."

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."

"When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side. And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds. Then Man was born: though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven."

"Daring is not safe against daring men."

"Love is full of anxious fears."