Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain
Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra
For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun…
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.
Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft ‘With our own feathers not by others’ hands Are we now smitten.’
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
God always strives together with those who strive.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
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.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.