If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

Man is no man, but a wolf