What else is nature but God?

As long as you live, learn how to live.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.