“God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”

Suffering brings experience.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

Honor modesty more than your life.

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.

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

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.