The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.