For the dead there are no more toils.
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
