In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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.
No one is happy all his life long.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.