But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.