"There is nothing more dreadful than the sea."

"For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!"

"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"The rule of the many is not well. One must be chief. In war and one the king."

"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…"