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In everything one must consider the end.

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Kindness effects more than severity.

Love is a cruel conqueror.

Happy is he who knows him through stories

And not by his blows!

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

In short, luck's always to blame.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

... a wise man knows

Gold comes but slowly, quickly goes;

I never touched it." "Gracious me!"

Replied the other, "why, then, be

So wretched? for if you say true,

You never touched it, plain the case;

Put back that stone upon the place,

'Twill be the very same to you."

Valiant of tongue, though his hand was cold for battle.