“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 crooked judgements”

“He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another”

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”

“No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.”

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”

“From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.”