If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil….

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise..

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget..

Excessive fear is always powerless..

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up..

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been..

Simple is the speech of truth..

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind..

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls..

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense..

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger..

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime..

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of prai….

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger..

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls ….

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this..

Suffering brings experience..

For the mighty, even to give away is grace..

A great ox stands on my tongue..

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground….