Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of prai….

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger..

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 ….

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this..

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths..

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery..

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly..

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted..

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise..

Suffering brings experience..

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days..

For the mighty, even to give away is grace..

A great ox stands on my tongue..

If you are not envied, you are not enviable..

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead..

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground….

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering..

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend..

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire..

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..