Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

The reward of suffering is experience

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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