One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Leave no stone unturned.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
No one is happy all his life long.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Much effort, much prosperity.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
No one who lives in error is free.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
