Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.