There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
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.
Numbers are a fearful thing.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.