To revive sorrow is cruel.
What you can't enforce, do not command.
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.