"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."

"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."

"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."

"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen."

"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."

"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."

"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."

"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."

"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."

"Time brings all things to pass."

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."

"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."

"Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away."

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house."

"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things."

"For hostile word let hostile word be paid."

"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."

"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind."

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."

"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"

"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."

"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."

"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."

"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."

"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."

"The man who does ill must suffer ill."

"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."

"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."

"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."

"It is always in season for old men to learn."

"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."

"Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?"

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

"The words of truth are simple."