Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.