Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.