"Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain."

"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."

"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

"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."

"Every medicine is vain."

"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."

"Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power."

"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."

"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft 'With our own feathers not by others' hands Are we now smitten.'"

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

"In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain."

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

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