Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

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

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.