What is life without the joy of Love?

What is life without the joy of Love?

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.