Homer — "A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his …"

"Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one."

"Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches."

"Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees, he thinks he will never suffer afflictio…"

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."

"A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much."