What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

The wisest of the wise may err.