“It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.”

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

A man that runs away may fight again.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don’t like

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy.

One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State.

Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.