What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
Virtue proceeds through effort.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.