It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
You are judged of by what you possess.
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
Anger is a short madness.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.