When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.