"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he,…"

"ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκη ποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα"

"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not…"

"The man who does ill, ill must suffer too."

"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."

"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

"Ἔστι γὰρ πλοῦτός γ᾽ ἀμεμφής, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῷ φόβος· ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν."

"Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά."

"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaf…"