Friends are proved by adversity.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

The beginnings of all things are small.