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.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.