In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged