A short saying often contains much wisdom.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
No man loves life like him that’s growing old.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
A lie never lives to be old.
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.