To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
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Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]
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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
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