Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.