Only fools need suffer to learn.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Peace is a nursing mother to the land.