Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.