We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.