"The gods love to thwart a man when he is growing too great."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."

"And nature is of mortals once deceased. For they nor muscle have, nor flesh, nor bone; All those (the spirit from the body once. Divorced) the violence of fire consumes, And, like a dream, the soul fl…"

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

"It is not for us to judge."