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Excessive fear is always powerless.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

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

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

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

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.