Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
No man was ever wise by chance.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.