Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.