"The wine is good, if you know how to drink it."

"We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have no cares themselves, have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives...Zeus the Thunderer has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, in w…"

"Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"A wicked crew betrayed me—they and a cruel sleep."