Life and Existence

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Character is destiny.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

A man's character is his fate.

Change alone is unchanging.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

You could not step twice into the same rivers. For other waters are ever flowing on to you.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

No one is happy all his life long.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.