If at first you don't succeed, give up.
'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
Wine gives strength to weary men.