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

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.