Do not consider painful what is good for you.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
Money is the wise man’s religion.
This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.
Authority is never without hate.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
No one is happy all his life long.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Friends show their love – in times of trouble, not in happiness.