Learning comes through pain.
Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.
Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
A curse burns bright on crime.
A tyrant’s trust dishonors those who earn it.
Look at him, look how he drips unhealth – shudder object!
We nearly always live through screens – a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that I have been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.4.
No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout – ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later.” Chorus, Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” from the Oresteia.
Here I am. Look no furter. No one loves you more than I.
The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.
But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.
I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.
If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.
You have learned the lesson by experience.
But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.
Time in its aging course teaches all things.
Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end.