You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
Success is man's god.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.
Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.
The laws of a state change with the changing times.
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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