The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.