“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.”
“For the dead there are no more toils.”
“The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.”
“There is no success without hardship.”
“Truth is always the strongest argument.”
“What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
“Success, remember is the reward of toil.”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.”
“Heaven never helps the men who will not act.”
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
“None loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.”
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
“Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.”
“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
“Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.”
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
“The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.”
“Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.”
“Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...”