One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
— Euripides
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
