For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.