What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Enough is abundance to the wise.
There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.