The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
All men have need of the gods.
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.