Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.