When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

The present will not long endure.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.