The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.