Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

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

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.