Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

No one is happy all his life long.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.