Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

No lie ever reaches old age.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise