Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.