The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Success is man's god.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.