Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.