"For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!"

"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."

"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."

"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."

"It is always in season for old men to learn."

"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."

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

"Who except the gods can live without any pain?"

"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."

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

"The words of truth are simple."

"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel."

"There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually."

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

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

"Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?"

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

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."

"And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered."

"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence."

"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."

"Time, as it grows old, teaches all things."

"But time growing old teaches all things."

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

"Fear is stronger than arms."

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."

"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."

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

"A curse burns bright on crime."

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."

"The wisest of the wise may err."

"I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another."

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

"Delay not to seize the hour!"

"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy."

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

"Excessive fear is always powerless."

"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Rumours voiced by women come to nothing."