No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.

It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Where two discourse, if the one’s anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man...

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest

Toil says the proverb, is the sire of fame

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

For a sickness, love is the healthiest

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