A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.