If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
count no man happy until he be dead.
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.