Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive
or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men’s lives as well as ours
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.
To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He’ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.
Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.
By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won’t bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.
Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
I have pondered on the causes of a life’s shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind’s quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can’t bring it to achievement.
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
This is courage … to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
A coward turns away but a brave man’s choice is danger.
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.
There’s nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
This is courage … to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Friends show their love – in times of trouble not in happiness.
1 loathe a friend … who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can’t bring it to achievement.
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
Man’s most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.
Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.
Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.
There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.
Who can stop grief’s avalanche once it starts to roll.
Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.