When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Your very silence shows you agree.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.