For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Despair often breeds disease.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.