Time will bring healing.
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
All men know their children mean more than life.
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them...
Character is “a stamp of good repute on a person.”
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches...
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
Account no man happy till he dies.
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.