The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

The truth is always the strongest argument.