A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
The voice is nothing but beaten air.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.