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„Je dobré, keď sa aj starí ľudia učia múdrosti.“

„Ľudia nenávidia smrť neprávom, je to najistejšia obrana proti mnohým chorobám a nešťastiam.“

„Len veľmi malý počet ľudí si ctí bez závisti priateľa, ktorý mal úspech.“

„Srdce robí zázraky, ale rozum na ne neverí.“

„Láska nám nepomáha k radosti ale k šťastiu.“

„Slabosť lásky je v tom, že ukazujeme druhým, ako nás jej strata bolí.“

„Kto začína poznávať, prestáva milovať.“

„Kto miluje, má stále plné ruky práce.“

„Život nie je problém, ktorý treba vyriešiť, ale realita, ktorú treba zažívať.“

„Bez nehôd, útrap a škôd nikto z nás neprejde životom.“

„Dobromyseľný a snaživý človek má bohov na svojej strane.“

„Múdry je ten, kto pozná potrebné veci, nie veľa vecí.“

„Je v povahe smrteľníkov kopnúť do človeka, keď leží.“

„Prílišná sláva prináša nešťastie. - Slová sú lekári chorej mysle.“

„Reč pravdy je jednoduchá.“

„Smrť jediná z bohov nemiluje dary.“

“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”

“To me, long disciplined in woe, are known
Divers lustrations; when to speak I know,
When to be silent.”

“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”

“Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war.”

“No boaster he,
But with a hand which sees the thing to do.”

“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”

“A speech well-mouthed
In th' utterance, and full-minded in the sense,
As doth befit a servant of the gods!”

“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”

“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”

“God on high
Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour
Has made not pitiless.”

“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”

“If any one bear evil, let it be
Without disgrace, sole profit to the dead;
On base and evil deeds no glory waits.”

“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”

“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”

“The field of Sin
Brings forth the fruits of Death.”

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”

“But as he willed 'tis ordered all,
And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall—
Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine
Poured forth too late, the wrath divine
Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine.”

“Too true it is! our mortal state
With bliss is never satiate.”

“The jealous poison, lodged within the heart,
Tortures with twofold pang whom it infects;
By his own griefs oppressed, the envious man
Groans also to behold another's joy.”

“Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.”

“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”

“Life envy-free is life unenviable.”

“Since to open out
And mourn out grief, where it is possible
To draw a tear from the audience, is a work
That pays its own price well.”

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”

“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”

“For Hades, ruler of the nether sphere,
Exactest auditor of human kind,
Graved on the tablet of his mind
Doth every trespass read.”