"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."

"The good and wise lead quite lives."

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life."

"Hate is a bottomless cup, I will pour and pour."

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

"Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right."

"Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body."

"There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one."

"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state."

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

"Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence."

"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."

"By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it."

"Much effort, much prosperity."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"The wavering mind is but a base possession."

"O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?"

"The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny."

"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"In childbirth grief begins."

"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement."

"Men are men they needs must err."

"The wisest men follow their own direction."

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."

"To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender."

"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."

"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."

"We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement."

"Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid."

"A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble."

"How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die."

"This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."

"One man two loves. No good ever comes of that."

"Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears."

"A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger."

"Money is the wise man's religion."

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."

"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream."

"Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps."

"O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good."