...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.