Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
Each man believes only his experience.
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in. . .
I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.