It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.