To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.