Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.