Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Authority is never without hate.
Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.
No one who lives in error is free.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.