If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. Votes: 13
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Votes: 8
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. Votes: 6
Time brings all things to pass. Votes: 5
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Votes: 0
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery." Votes: 0
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. Votes: 0
In war, truth is the first casualty. Votes: 0
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. Votes: 0
There is no avoidance in delay. Votes: 0
Honor modesty more than your life. Votes: 0
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. Votes: 0
Excessive fear is always powerless. Votes: 0
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. Votes: 0
Death is softer by far than tyranny. Votes: 0
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Votes: 0
Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom. Votes: 0
The wisest of the wise may err. Votes: 0
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. Votes: 0
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Votes: 0
The words of truth are simple. Votes: 0
Call no man happy till he is dead. Votes: 0
Base men who prosper are unenviable. Votes: 0
Do not kick against the pricks. Votes: 0
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. Votes: 0
Success is man's god. Votes: 0
But let the good prevail. Votes: 0
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness Votes: 0
Delay not to seize the hour! Votes: 0
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows. Votes: 0
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all. Votes: 0
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill. Votes: 0
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. Votes: 0
Wisdom cometh by suffering. Votes: 0
Fear is stronger than arms. Votes: 0
A great ox stands on my tongue. Votes: 0
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors. Votes: 0
Suffering brings experience. Votes: 0
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble. Votes: 0
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. Votes: 0
The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow. Votes: 0
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame. Votes: 0
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it. Votes: 0
For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke. Votes: 0
Even the old should learn. Votes: 0
Simple is the speech of truth. Votes: 0
The reward of pain is experience. Votes: 0
Art is far feebler than necessity. Votes: 0
The unenvied man is not enviable. Votes: 0
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer. Votes: 0
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them. Votes: 0
By suffering comes wisdom. Votes: 0
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. Votes: 0
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow. Votes: 0
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. Votes: 0
Only through suffering do we learn Votes: 0
Sweet is a grief well ended. Votes: 0
Necessity is stronger far than art. Votes: 0
Ask the gods nothing excessive. Votes: 0