It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.