Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

In war the first casualty is the truth.