All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
