Old loves are dropped when new ones come

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

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

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.