We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can’t bring it to achievement.

Prosperity is full of friends.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

To generous souls every task is noble.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended

Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all...

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

The lucky person passes for a genius

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.

Here all mankind is equal: rich and poor alike, they love their children

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays

Character is a stamp of good repute on a person.

Too much zeal offends: where indirection works

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk

The wisest men follow their own direction

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything

The language of truth is simple.

Money is the wise man’s religion

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman

Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor

If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Ahimè, sento parole dolorose, peggiori per me di ogni morte. Non essere così crudele da abbandonarmi, te ne prego, per gli dei, per questi figli che lascerai orfani. Non cedere, fatti coraggio! Se tu muori...

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives

The whole wide ether is the eagle’s way: The whole earth is a brave man’s fatherland

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

I think that fortune watcheth o’er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed...

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.