To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.