Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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.