Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.
It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
No wound is worse than counterfeited love.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
You cannot know a man’s life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.