To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.