Trying is the first step toward failure.
Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madnessโshe with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
There is a strength in the even of very sorry men
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.