A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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

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

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

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

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

No lie ever reaches old age.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

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

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Who seeks shall find.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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

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

For the dead there are no more toils.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.