There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

The wisest of the wise may err.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.