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.
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
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 us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
It is always the season for the old to learn.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
The reward of suffering is experience
God ever works with those who work with will.
By suffering comes wisdom.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
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