Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.