“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.”

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra”

“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one!Tell me, whose voice proclaimsThings true and sad,Naming by all their old, unhappy names,What drove me mad--”

“CLYTEMNESTRAWhat ails thee, raising this ado for us?SLAVEI say the dead are come to slay the living.”