for assuredly the god will not be the cause of his own oracle falling fruitless to the ground; courage is all that is required, for the young have no excuse for shirking toil. (View Highlight)
“The unfortunate, having once known prosperity themselves, bear no kind feelings towards their luckier neighbours. (View Highlight)
for all that Heaven decrees, proceeds unseen, and no man knoweth of the ills in store; for Fate misleads us into doubtful paths. (View Highlight)
No wise man I count him. who, when death looms near, attempts to quell its terrors by piteous laments, nor yet the man who bewails the Death-god’s arrival, when he has no hope of (View Highlight)
rescue; for he makes two evils out of one; he lets himself be called a fool and all the same he dies; he should let his fortune be. (View Highlight)
For the wise man’s way, when once he gets a chance, is not to indulge in pleasures foreign to it, abandoning his fortune. (View Highlight)
our womanhood, with its kindly feeling towards members of our sex, and our intense loyalty in preserving secrets, that affect us all. For my sake hold your peace and help us might and main to escape; an honour to its owner is a trusty tongue. (View Highlight)
The sea washes away from man all that is ill. (View Highlight)
But when Apollo’s coming had dispossessed Earth’s daughter, Themis, of the holy oracles, her mother raised a brood of nightly phantoms seen in dreams, telling to many a mortal wight, as he lay asleep in the darkness, what has been and yet shall be; (View Highlight)