Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
In war, truth is the first casualty
Time brings all things to pass.