Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.