The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow

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.