"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love."

"Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far."

"Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!"

"Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end."

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"Or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours."

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."

"There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

"Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?"

"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief."

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."

"The lucky person passes for a genius."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

"Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs."

"For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it."

"Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."

"Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes."

"The bold are helpless without cleverness."

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

"Old loves are dropped when new ones come."

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

"Authority is never without hate."

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw."

"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."

"Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable."

"Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid."

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."

"Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life."

"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."

"We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.."

"To die is a debt we must all of us discharge."

"It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn."

"The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen."

"Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?"