For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.