It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Know not to revere human things too much.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.