To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.