With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us..

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality..

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us..

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise..

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching..

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration..

Men are the dreams of a shadow..

Water is the best of all things..

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is noth….

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent..

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else..

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know..

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed..

The forehead of every work must shine from afar..

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth..

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve..

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall en….

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well..

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death..

War is sweet to them that know it not..