Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

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

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.