"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."

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

"Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά."

"Ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές."

"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…"