"Very often the things that cost nothing cost us the most heavily; I can show you many objects the quest and acquisition of which have wrested freedom from our hands."

"Illi mors gravis incubat Qui notus nimis omnibus Ignotus moritur sibi"

"Quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat, qui diem aestimet, qui intellegat se cotidie mori?"

"peior est bello timor ipse belli."

"Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas."

"In hoc enim fallimur, quod mortem prospicimus: magna pars eius iam praeterit; quidquid aetatis retro est mors tenet."

"Tanta stultitia mortalium est."

"Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by."

"sic cum inferiore vivas quemadmodum tecum superiorem velis vivere."

"We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting."

"The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods."

"Brevissima ad divitias per contemptum divitiarum via est."

"You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate."

"You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you."

"qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris."

"Nam qui peccare se nescit, corrigi non vult."

"Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt."

"Would you know what makes men greedy for the future? It is because no one has yet found himself."

"You must die erect and unyielding."

"I forbid you to be cast down or depressed. It is not enough if you do not shrink from work; ask for it."

"He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live."

"Ideo pueris et sententias ediscendas damus et has quas Graeci chrias vocant, quia complecti illas puerilis animus potest, qui plus adhuc non capit. Certi profectus viro captare flosculos turpe est et fulcire se notissimis ac paucissimis vocibus et memoria stare: sibi iam innitatur. Dicat ista, non teneat; turpe est enim seni aut prospicienti senectutem ex commentario sapere. 'Hoc Zenon dixit': tu quid? 'Hoc Cleanthes': tu quid? Quousque sub alio moveris? impera et dic quod memoriae tradatur, aliquid et de tuo profer."

"Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet"

"Quid ergo? non ibo per priorum vestigia? ego vero utar via vetere, sed si propiorem planioremque invenero, hanc muniam. Qui ante nos ista moverunt non domini nostri sed duces sunt. Patet omnibus veritas; nondum est occupata; multum ex illa etiam futuris relictum est."

"Praeterea qui alium sequitur nihil invenit, immo nec quaerit."

"Nam illa tumultu gaudens non est industria sed exagitatae mentis concursatio."

"It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great."

"Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours."

"Nulla res citius in odium venit quam dolor, qui recens consolatorem invenit et aliquos ad se adducit, inveteratus vero deridetur, nec inmerito."

"Omnis ars naturae imitatio est."

"Great also are the souls of the defenders—men who know that, as long as the path to death lies open, the blockade is not complete, men who breathe their last in the arms of liberty."

"There stood Mucius, despising the enemy and despising the fire, and watched his hand as it dripped blood over the fire on his enemy’s altar, until Porsenna, envying the fame of the hero whose punishment he was advocating, ordered the fire to be removed against the will of the victim."

"Would not anyone who is a man have his slumbers broken by a war-trumpet rather than by a chorus of serenaders?"