There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.