In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him..

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar..

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time..

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer..

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance..

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now a….

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night..

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for..

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us..

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long..

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits..

Only through suffering do we learn.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will..

The unenvied man is not enviable..

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood..

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his ….

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow..

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

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend..