Much effort, much prosperity.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

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