By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile