Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.