"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"
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong"
"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere"
"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life"
"Evil counsel travels fast"
"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near"
"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"
"Better not to exist than live basely"
"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear"
"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"
"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness"
"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"
"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts"
"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life"
"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it"
"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong"
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink"
"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow"
"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly"
"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist"
"A lie never lives to be old"
"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune"
"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day"
"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed"
"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds"
"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping"
"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow"
"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is"
