Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?