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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.