The reward of pain is experience.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.
Time brings all things to pass.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.