Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

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

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.