No one is happy all his life long.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Life is a short affair; we should try to make it smooth, and free from strife

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Friends show their love – in times of trouble, not in happiness

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

The wisest men follow their own direction.

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.