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.

Do not kick against the pricks.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

The reward of pain is experience.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.