If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Time, the devourer of all things.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

To give requires good sense.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

He who says o’er much I love not is in love.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

An evil life is a kind of death.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

There is a god within us.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity

Beauty is a fragile gift.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Bear patiently with a rival.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Little things please little minds.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.