It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

What is true belongs to me!

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.