My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.