Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The evil that we know is best.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners...

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief ‘s face.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

He whom the gods favor dies in youth.

For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Man is no man, but a wolf.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Conquered, we conquer.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

No blessing lasts forever.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master’s name.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.