How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.