It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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