I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Gold will be slave or master.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.