Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

The present will not long endure.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

The best of healers is good cheer.

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.