“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
“Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.”
“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”
“When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.”
“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.”
“The man whose authority is recent is always stern.”
“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”
“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.”
“And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”