There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
But let the good prevail.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.