 As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. |
| To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. |
| Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. |
| The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. |
| The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. |
| How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. |
| Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. |
| The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. |
| Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. |
| He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. |
| If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. |
| Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. |
| A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. |
| Men trust their ears less than their eyes. |
| The destiny of man is in his own soul. |
| In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. |
| Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. |
| Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. |
| There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. |
| Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. |
