Bear calamities with meekness.
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature’s ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it’s quite a different story.
Woman is woman’s natural ally.
If some appalling disaster befalls, there’s Always a way for the rich.
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo’s son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two – anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.
We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
If one must do a wrong, it’s best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let’s have virtue.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.