Quotes

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

The words of truth are simple.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

But time growing old teaches all things.