It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.