Truth is always straightforward.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.