It is best to live however one can be.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Success is dependent on effort.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Time is a kindly god.