It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

...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.

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

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

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