“Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.”

The good befriend themselves.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

An old couple makes you realize that true love still exists.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

The important thing in life is not how much one earns, but how much existence one does not waste.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.