"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool."

"Even a poor man can receive honors."

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

"A man growing old becomes a child again."

"Without labor nothing prospers."

"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day."

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."

"Always desire to learn something useful."

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."

"There is no success without hardship."

"For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things."

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."

"You win the victory when you yield to friends."

"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."

"No enemy is worse than bad advice."

"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."

"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice.""

"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune."

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."

"There is no greater evil than anarchy."

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

"Despair often breeds disease."

"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness."

"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."