“I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.”

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.