O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?