Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.