The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.
Women don’t like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
The wise with hope support the pains of life.
The wife should yield in all things to her lord.
There is safety in numbers.
Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.
You women are all the same, if bed’s all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there’s any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell’s let loose.
Common sense is the best prophet.
Numbers are a fearful thing.
Action achieves more than words.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.