Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
For the mighty, even to give away is grace.