If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.