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.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.