I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.