“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”

No honest man will argue on every side.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Without labor nothing prospers.

Despair often breeds disease.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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