I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.