In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.