Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.