Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.