“Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.”

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Time brings all things to pass.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Fortune favors the bold.

When you bless others, God will bless you. When you show favor, favor will come to you.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.