Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God...
It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he’s underground.
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
High honors are sweet To a man’s heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Only one in command: that’s the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
A woman should always stand by a woman.