If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
The wife should yield in all things to her lord
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.
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.