For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.