Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
A lie never lives to be old.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.