“From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?”

“Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”

“The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.”

“Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”