Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

The end excuses any evil.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Time is a kindly God.