In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.