The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.