Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
The one knowing what is useful, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
The wisest of the wise may err.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
The words of truth are simple.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
