“It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.”

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Fear is stronger than arms.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The reward of suffering is experience.

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

I have not need to promise what I cannot do.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.