There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.
Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.
He loves power. A terrible love.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.
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Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.