A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Everything is ideal to its parent.