The God knows when to smile.
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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]
Virtue proceeds through effort.
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.
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.