Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Character is a stamp of good repute on a person. Do not consider painful what is good for you. Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? He is wise that is wise to himself. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally. Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. Second thoughts are ever wiser. | 
