To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
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.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.