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

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.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

You must spend money to make money.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.