Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.