Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.

Authority is never without hate.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

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.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

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

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Time brings all things to pass.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth...

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

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

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

Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

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

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

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

But time growing old teaches all things.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

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

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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

Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

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

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

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the...

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.