O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad <i>men</i> from good, the flesh bears no r… - Euripides

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

What's strange in that? Have you only just discovered
That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor?

Wretched, wretched one! Who then or God, or mortal, or [unexpected event, [121] ] having accomplished a way out of inextricable difficulties, will show forth to the sole twain Atrides a release from ills?