Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.