In a just cause it is right to be confident.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?