Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Cleverness is not wisdom

The bold are helpless without cleverness

Much effort, much prosperity.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished

Old age is not total misery, experience helps

‘Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Woman is woman’s natural ally

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

I have pondered on the causes of a life’s shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind’s quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend...

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a...

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

There is one thing alone – that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair

Luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.

Authority is never without hate.

No one who lives in error is free.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

It’s human; we all put self interest first.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

The wavering mind is but a base possession

All is change; all yields its place and goes

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue–and there are...

Leave no stone unturned.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Love’s all in all to women