Ares gives his verdict without witnesses..

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill..

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house..

No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and ….

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths..

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden o….

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced..

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank..

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice..

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 des….

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

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world..

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen..

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows..

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie..

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead..

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say..

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers..

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood..

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth..

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation..