Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
To generous souls every task is noble.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.