Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Success is dependent on effort.

Always desire to learn something useful.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

There is no success without hardship.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Who seeks shall find.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

A lie never lives to be old.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

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

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Despair often breeds disease.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.