Wide sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
slavery
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
honor
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
dreams
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
dogs
Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.
evil
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
friends
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
enemies friends man marriage people
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
earth
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 enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
desires
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
grief
A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
How God ever brings like to like.
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
age
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
honesty
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
patience tso-life wisdom
To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
prayer