If I could remake the world, I’d banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
The life of men is painful.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
It’s folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.