Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
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.
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.
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.