Man’s worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
A fearful man is always hearing things.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
The tyrant is a child of pride.
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him either.
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.
Thou shalt not ration justice.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.