Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
— Homer
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
It is not good to have a rule of many.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
