The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
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.
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.