Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
Only through suffering do we learn
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
To many mortals silence great gain brings.
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The wisest of the wise may err.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Wrong must not win by technicalities.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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