If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
Youth holds no society with grief.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?