When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Better not to exist than live basely.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
A lie never lives to be old.
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Despair often breeds disease.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
