"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves"
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul"
"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool"
"The heavier crop is ever in others' fields"
"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late"
"The gods behold all righteous actions"
"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all"
"The burden which is well borne becomes light"
"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength"
"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear"
"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward"
"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it"
"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them"
"Make the workmanship surpass the materials"
"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place"
"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish"
"Love is full of anxious fears"
"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears"
"Love is a kind of warfare"
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope"
"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all"
"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love"
"He who can believe himself well, will be well"
"Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly"
"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another"
"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude"
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times"
"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean"
"Fortune and love favor the brave"
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless"
"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again"
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer"
"There is a god within us"
"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing"
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace"
