You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

...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.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.