It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.

An enemy’s gift is ruinous and no gift.

What men have seen they know; / But what shall come hereafter / No man before the event can see, / Nor what end waits for him.

To throw away / an honest friend is, as it were, to throw / your life away.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Look how men live, always precariously / balanced between good and bad fortune.

If you think my acts are foolishness / the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

Fate has terrible power. / You cannot escape it by wealth or war. / No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.