I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.