So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.