The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
All men know their children mean more than life.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?