Chances rule men and not men chances.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.