"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time"
"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness"
"To live without evil belongs only to the gods"
"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day"
"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"
"There is a time when even justice brings harm"
"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest"
"Success is dependent on effort"
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things"
"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always"
"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely"
"Even a poor man can receive honors"
"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"
"Always desire to learn something useful"
"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes"
"No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat"
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected"
"Who seeks shall find"
"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it"
"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds"
"It is best to live however one can be"
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"
"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too"
"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all"
"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"
"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly"
"A fearful man is always hearing things"
"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things"
"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"
"There is no greater evil than anarchy"
"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"
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love"
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong"
"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere"
"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"
"To him who is in fear everything rustles"
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way"
"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best"
"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do"
"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing"
"Evil gains work their punishment"
"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"
"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver"
"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife"
"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad"
"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure"
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities"
"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"
"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick"
