You should not work using only your eyes; you will not multiply your possessions using only your mouth.

You should not curse strongly: it rebounds on you.

Your understanding encompasses all the gods.

On the day when in heaven and earth the fates had been decided, Lagaš raised its head high in full grandeur, and Enlil looked at Lord Ninĝirsu with approval. In our city there was perfection.

Only the gods live for ever with glorious Shamash, but as for us men, our days are numbered, our occupations are a breath of wind.

Laying the foundations of my temple will bring immediate abundance: the great fields will grow rich for you, the levees and ditches will be full to the brim for you, the water will rise for you to heights never reached by the water before.

The negligent one ruins his family.

You should not travel during the night: it can hide both good and evil.

To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a companion for the weak, are yours, Inana.

There is no permanence. Do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? It is only the nymph of the dragon-fly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom? When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.

Enlil lifted his glance over all the lands, and the lands raised themselves to Enlil.

Fate is a wet bank; it can make one slip.

To give the crown, the throne and the royal sceptre is yours, Inana.

My mistress abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld.

What is this sleep which holds you now? You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.

The Great Mountain, Father Enlil -- his eye is bright, he will look at you!

O Gilgamesh, this was the meaning of your dream. You were given the kingship, such was your destiny, everlasting life was not your destiny.

Father Enki, the lord of great wisdom, knows about the life-giving plant and the life-giving water. He is the one who will restore me to life.

The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle. You should never remain in his presence; his intentions should not be allowed to have an effect on you.