1. “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
2. “In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.”
3. “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
4. “It is always in season for old men to learn.”
5. “It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
6. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
7. “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
8. “I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.”
9. “Love is the Divinity Who creates peace among Men and calm upon the sea; the windless silence of storms, repose and sleep in sadness. Love sings to all things which live and are, soothing the troubled minds of Gods and Men.”
10. "Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
11. “The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.”
12. “The man whose authority is recent is always stern.”
13. “There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
14. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
15. “There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
16. “The reward of suffering is experience.”
17. “The wisest of the wise may err.”
18. “Time as he grows old teaches all things.”
19. ”Time brings all things to pass.”
20. “When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.”
21. "Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"
22. "Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
23. “Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
24. ”Wrong must not win by technicalities.”