 It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. |
| It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. |
| For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. |
| Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? |
| For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. |
| In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. |
| Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Topics: Love |
| It is always in season for old men to learn. |
| Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. |
| Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. |
| Memory is the mother of all wisdom. |
| Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. |
| I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. |
| God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. |
| Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Topics: Death |
| Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? |
| Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? |
| But time growing old teaches all things. |
| There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. |
| By Time and Age full many things are taught. |
