To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
If they are just, they are better than clever.
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.