As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.
Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.