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

“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.”

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

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.”

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”