The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.