When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.