The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
