Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Even a poor man can receive honors.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
