"I will not stir from this spot, but will wait for you to take my offer."

"We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have no cares themselves, have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives...Zeus the Thunderer has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, in w…"

"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed."

"The heart of man is a strange thing."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."