Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.