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.

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

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

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

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

Base men who prosper are unenviable.