Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Chance is a second master.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.