697  To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

1559  Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.........

553  Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

963  It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

678  Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.