The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Your very silence shows you agree.