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.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Cleverness is not wisdom

The bold are helpless without cleverness

Much effort, much prosperity.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished

Old age is not total misery, experience helps

‘Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.