A human being is only breath and shadow.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Success is the reward for toil.