Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
But let the good prevail.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.