It is better to be envied than pitied.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.