I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.