A great fortune is a great slavery.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.