There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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.
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
Know not to revere human things too much.
Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
The reward of pain is experience.
Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
The words of truth are simple.
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
Time brings all things to pass.
Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
Do not kick against the pricks.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
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