They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
No oath can be too binding for a lover.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
When trouble ends even troubles please.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it’s not.
Obedience to authority saves many skins.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.