The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.