"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him su…"

"There is no strength in weakness."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."