A mind at peace does not engender wars.
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.