Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
The worthless usually live long.
Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.