A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.