"So please go home and tend to your own tasks, / the distaff and the loom, and keep the women / working hard as well."

"The gods can either give or take away."

"But among the blessed immortals uncontrollable laughter went up as they saw Hephaestos bustling about the palace."

"For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!"

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."