But you can’t stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!
Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one’s house enriched and one’s authority enhanced.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man’s eyes than his own country.
After the event, even a fool is wise.
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
Actually, I’ve been working on a plan. During the exam, I’ll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
Forget the brother and resume the man.
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
I’m in a place where I don’t know where I am!