Now the race of women by nature loves scandal; and if they get some slight handle for their gossip they exaggerate it, for they seem to take a pleasure in saying everything bad of one another. (View Highlight)
Seek to be prosperous; once let fortune lour, and the aid supplied by friends is naught. (View Highlight)
Poverty is a curse; breeding would not find me food. (View Highlight)
haste never carries justice with it; but slow deliberation oft attains a wise result. (View Highlight)
Fair words are only called for when the deeds they crown are fair; otherwise they lose their charm and offend justice. (View Highlight)
The words of truth are simple, and justice needs no subtle interpretations, for it hath a fitness in itself; but the words of injustice, being rotten in themselves, require clever treatment. (View Highlight)
prize equality that ever linketh friend to friend, city to city, and allies to each other; for equality is man’s natural law; but the less is always in opposition to the greater, ushering in the dayspring of dislike (View Highlight)
Man indeed hath no possessions of his own; we do but hold a stewardship of the gods’ property; and when they will, they take it back again. Riches make no settled home, but are as transient as the day. (View Highlight)
If all were unanimous in their ideas of honour and wisdom, there would have been no strife to make men disagree; but, as it is, fairness and equality have no existence in this world beyond the name; there is really no such thing. (View Highlight)
Night equalizes risks, though it rather favours daring. (View Highlight)
For never can wrong be right, … nor children of unnatural parentage come as a glory to the mother that bears them, but as a stain on the marriage of him who is father and brother at once. (View Highlight)
For I loved him though he turned my foe, I loved him, yes! in spite of all. (View Highlight)