"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel."

"There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually."

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."

"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence."

"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."

"But time growing old teaches all things."

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."

"The wisest of the wise may err."

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy."

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

"Excessive fear is always powerless."

"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Time as he grows old teaches all things."

"We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity."

"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."

"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight."

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

"God always strives together with those who strive."

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."

"What good is it to live a life that brings pains?"