Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

In a change of government, the poor change nothing beyond the change of their master.

Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

There is no shame in the accidents of chance, but only in the consequence of our own misdeeds.

The mind ought to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself.

A learned man has always wealth in himself.

A partnership with the powerful is never safe.