Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

No honest man will argue on every side