How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.