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

"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

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

"There is no greater evil than anarchy."

"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."

"There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"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."

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."

"No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat."

"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed."

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."

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

"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."

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

"Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech."

"No lie ever reaches old age."

"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

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

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too."

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

"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

"It is best to live however one can be."

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

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

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

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."

"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

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

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."