The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.