"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."

"Few sons are like their father, most are worse, a very few are better than their father."

"The rule of the many is not well. One must be chief. In war and one the king."

"There will be killing 'till the score is paid. You forced yourselves upon his house."

"The gods have woven threads of death for all men."