Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
An ally need not own the land he helps.
Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.