Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.