If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
All things deteriorate in time.
Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr. , La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez. ]
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.