Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.