Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.