In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.’

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.

When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

It is the gods’ best gift.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Who can stop grief’s avalanche once it starts to roll.

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

Only a madman would give good for evil

Account no man happy till he dies

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The good and wise lead quite lives

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides long ago said, ‘who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.’ I nominated myself as an ‘infidel’ as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is the sky, which is all men’s together.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad

Unhappiness remembering happiness.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.

To see their children dead before their eyes?

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Man’s most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.

It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.