The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
No one is happy all his life long.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
No one who lives in error is free.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
