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

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.