To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.

THE POOR AND THE SUBJECT CALLED "POVERTY" IS FILTH TO THE RICH AND THE SUBJECT CALLED "RICHES", BUT CLEANLINESS IS THE ONLY MARK OF ACCEPTANCE.