There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
If they are just, they are better than clever.
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
An enemy’s gift is ruinous and no gift.
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Even a poor man can receive honors.
Despair often breeds disease.
Better not to exist than live basely.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.