By Time and Age full many things are taught.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Time brings all things to pass.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Every medicine is vain.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

It is always in season for old men to learn.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the...

Hell to ships, hell to men, hell to cities – of Helen of Troy

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The laws of a state change with the changing times

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.