“Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.”

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Excuses are the cradle that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Where there’s music there can be no evil.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.