“Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.”

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

It won’t matter how beautiful they look when they don’t treat you beautifully.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

You left me with nothing. But the gift to write the most beautiful sad poems.

Let the beauty of solitude heal and not destroy.

All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.