Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.