We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.