The tyrant is a child of pride.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.