A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
No master can make me swear blind obedience.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.