"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
"Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves."
"Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave."
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."
"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
"Account no man happy till he dies."
"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."
"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."
"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world?"
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."
"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."
"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."
"Second thoughts are ever wiser."
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future."
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."
"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."