If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

The good befriend themselves.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.