The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing

Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

call no man happy until he is dead

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.