"From my great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know …"

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"Reverence the gods, save men. Life is brief; there is but one harvest of earthly existence, a holy disposition and ne…"

"El perro ladra y la caravana pasa."

"From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so littl…"

"Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who a…"

"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."

"He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts."

"Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. An…"

"Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity—especially illness. (Hays translation)"