An Orator Of Past Times Declared That

If You Have Known How To Compose Your Life, You Have Done A Great Deal More Than The Person Who Knows How To Compose A Book. You Have Done More Than The One Who Has Taken Cities And Empires.

It Is A Rare Life That Remains Orderly Even In Private.

Fortune, Seeing That She Could Not Make Fools Wise, Has Made Them Lucky.

We Are More Solicitous That Men Speak Of Us, Than How They Speak.

All Other Knowledge Is Hurtful To Him Who Has Not Honesty And Good-nature