Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Time brings all things to pass.
The wisest of the wise may err.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
