There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
To learn is to be young, however old.
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain.
Only through suffering do we learn.
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
The words of truth are simple.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.