None can hold fortune still and make it last.
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.