 What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? |
| Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. |
| You win the victory when you yield to friends. |
| For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. |
| 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. |
| Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. |
| But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. |
| To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. |
| Evil counsel travels fast. |
| One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. |
| How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. |
| A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. |
| It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. |
| Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. |
| The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. |
| Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. |
| Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. |
| Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. |
| A lie never lives to be old. |
| For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. |
