God helps him who strives hard.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.