The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

Only a madman would give good for evil

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.