Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.