To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Know not to revere human things too much.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.