A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
No one is happy all his life long.
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.
Women don’t like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
The wise with hope support the pains of life.