Gifts are like hooks |
Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes |
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late |
Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past |
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads |
He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam |
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen |
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. |
He who prefers to give to Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half |
He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse |
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.'' |
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. |
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks |
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. |
How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on. |