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.
— Euripides
Leave no stone unturned.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
No one who lives in error is free.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Authority is never without hate.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Prosperity is full of friends.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
No one is happy all his life long.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
The lucky person passes for a genius.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
