1. “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
2. “Man is nothing but a breath and a shadow.”
3. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
4. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild.”
5. “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
6. "Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
7. “Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
8. “Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.”
9. “Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
10. "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
11. “The best of seers is he who guesses well.”
12. “The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
13. “There is the sky, which is all men's together.”
14. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
15. "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."
16. “Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.”
17. “We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.”
18. “Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.”
19. “Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
20. “Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
