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.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.