Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.