Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

God ever works with those who work with will.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

Time shell be the limit of my suffering.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

Thou beholdest a spectacle ill-sighted to the eye. (Vulcan).

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

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

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