“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.”

In soft regions are born soft men.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Call no man happy before he dies.

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.

Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune. We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.