Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
No dignity without distance.
Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.