It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.