Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.