When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.