From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when t...
When quarrel and strife arose among the immortals, if one of them that dwells on Olympus speaks false, Zeus sends Iris to bring the gods' great oath from far off in a golden jug, the celebrated golden...
If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.
So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with c...
It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep...
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;
Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it