Call no man happy before he dies.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.