Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.