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.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

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

It is always in season for old men to learn.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

Leave no stone unturned.

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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

The lucky person passes for a genius.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that...

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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

Prosperity is full of friends.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

No one is happy all his life long.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?