"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

"To live each day as if it were thy last, without haste, without sloth, without hypocrisy."

"Reverence the gods, and help men. Life is short."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change existing things and to make new things like…"