For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

In season, all is good.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.