Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
He who fears his servants is less than a servant..
It is better to arouse envy than pity..
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so..
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence..
The losing side is full of suspicion..
He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal..
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.].
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source..
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable..
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed..
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy..
He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy..
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised..
No one know what he can do till he tries..
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy..
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure..
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain..
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them..
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house..
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate..