"All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil."

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

"Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act."

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."

"No one loves the messenger who brings bad news."

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune."

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

"There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness."

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."

"There is no greater evil than anarchy."

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."

"And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I'm going to cause you quite a lot of pain."

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

"Thy life is safe while any god saves mine."

"Despair often breeds disease."

"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness."

"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter."

"I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life."

"Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

"There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries."

"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."

"Evil gains work their punishment."

"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?"

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

"TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath the earth, and in this life."

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."

"But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years."

"To speak much is one thing, to speak to the point another!"

"Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend."