 Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. |
| God's dice always have a lucky roll. |
| There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. |
| Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. |
| The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. |
| Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? |
| Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. |
| A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. |
| All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. |
| Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. |
| I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. |
| Without labor nothing prospers. |
| Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. |
| A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. |
| It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. |
| Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. |
| 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. |
| Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. |
| To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. |
| To live without evil belongs only to the gods. |
