Better not to exist than live basely.
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
Evil gains work their punishment.
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 most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.