Happiness Is Man's Greatest Aim In Life.

Some Men Spend Their Whole Life Furnishing For Themselves The Things Proper To Life Without Realizing That At Our Birth Each Of Us Was Poured A Mortal Brew To Drink.

I Would Rather Be First In A Little Iberian Village Than Second In Rome.

A Free Life Cannot Acquire Many Possessions, Because This Is Not Easy To Do Without Servility To Mobs Or Monarchs.

Do Not Spoil What You Have By Desiring What You Have Not; Remember That What You Now Have Was Once Among The Things You Only Hoped For.

Against Other Things It Is Possible To Obtain Security, But When It Comes To Death We Human Beings All Live In An Unwalled City.