But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.