Punishment follows close on crime.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.