Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.