It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.