The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Woman is woman's natural ally.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.