Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
Everything is ideal to its parent.
Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
Evil counsel travels fast.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Great Time makes all things dim.
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
False words do not bring forth fruit.
To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
No lie ever reaches old age.
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Silence is an ornament for women.
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
The truth is ever best.
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