A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
Evil gains work their punishment.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
It is best to live however one can be.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
