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.
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.