What good is it to live a life that brings pains?.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured..

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves..

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged..

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee..

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer..

For hostile word let hostile word be paid..

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers..

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your pro….

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly..

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove..

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word..

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine ….

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears..

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will,….

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torm….

God ever works with those who work with will..

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might..

When a match has equal partners then I fear not..

Ask the gods nothing excessive..

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes..