On Death:
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Death is better, a milder mover for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals.
On Happiness:
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
On Success:
Success is man’s god.
On Fear:
Excessive fear is always powerless.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
Fear is stronger than arms.
On Learning:
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
On God:
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
High fortune, this in man’s eye is god and more than god is this.