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

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.