A friend in word is never friend of mine.
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father’s.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.
Success is dependent on effort.
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
Men’s minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act.
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
One’s own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.