Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
The brave venture anything.
What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.