“Current on earth, none is so vile as money. For money opens wide the city-gates to ravishers, it drives the citizens to exile, it perverts the honest mind to the honest mind to shamefulness, it teaches men to practice all forms of wickedness and impiety.”
“When I can do no more than I will stop.”
"It was not Zeus who published this decree, nor have the Powers who rule among the dead imposed such laws as this upon mankind; nor could I think that a decree of yours-a man- could override the laws of Heaven, unwritten and unchanging. Not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are eternal; no man saw their birth. Was I to stand before the gods' tribunal for disobeyything them, becuase I feared a man? I knew that I should have to die, even without your edict; if I die before my time, why then, I count it a gain; to one who lives as I do, ringed about with countless miseries, why, death is welcome. For me to meet this doom is little greif' but when my mother;s son lay dead, had I neglected him and left him there unburied, that would have caused me grief; this causes none. And if you think it folly, then perhaps I am accused for folly by the fool."
"Still from the same quarter the same wild winds blow fiercely, and shake her stubborn soul."
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