Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. The wise learn many things from their enemies. These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. By words the mind is winged. Evil events from evil causes spring. High thoughts must have high language. | 
