He who learns must suffer. 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.
Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Time brings all things to pass.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
The wisest of the wise may err.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
God always strives together with those who strive.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
But time growing old teaches all things.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
The words of truth are simple.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
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.
