In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

Money is the wise man's religion.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.