You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better...

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this...

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

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...

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.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory....

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.