To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.