For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.