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"The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite."
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
"Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?"
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
"The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all."
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight."
"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
"Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy."
"Wrong must not win by technicalities."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."
"ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities."
"My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you."
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
"Call no man happy till he is dead."