Only fools need suffer to learn.

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.