Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.