It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

All men have need of the gods.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.