Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.