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.
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
Truth is always straightforward.