Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

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.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.