Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
There is no success without hardship.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Who seeks shall find.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.