It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Know not to revere human things too much.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?