There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
The workman still is greater than his work.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.