If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.