“It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.”

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

“Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.”

“Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

“The journey is its own reward.”

“Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”