For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.