To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Know not to revere human things too much.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.