The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
Nothing’s as good as holding on to safety.
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.
A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.