One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Dead men have no victory.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring,

But I've noticed that those who have them

Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Authority is never without hate.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.
JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.
MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.