Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.