One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Only a madman would give good for evil

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

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.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.