Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

The wisest of the wise may err.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

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

Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Much effort, much prosperity.

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

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

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

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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...

No one who lives in error is free.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.