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.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.