Quotes
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Adventure is worthwhile.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Time brings all things to pass.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
The wisest of the wise may err.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.