We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
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 force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.