 A fearful man is always hearing things. |
| There is no success without hardship. |
| Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? |
| Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. |
| No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. |
| When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. |
| Not even Ares battles against necessity. |
| You should not consider a man's age but his acts. |
| Silence is an ornament for women. |
| 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. |
| Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. |
| Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. |
| Who seeks shall find. |
| Even a poor man can receive honors. |
| A short saying often contains much wisdom. |
| I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. |
| Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. |
| Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. |
| If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." |
| Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? |
