There exists no more difficult art than living.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?