Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Opposites are cures for opposites."
A big book is a big bore.
A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.