Everyone's quick to blame the alien..

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, m….

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends..

There is no avoidance in delay..

The reward of pain is experience..

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness..

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors..

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win..

If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks..

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery..

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted..

Delay not to seize the hour!.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen..

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy..

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame..

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke..

We shall perish by guile just as we slew..

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise..

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun..

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods..