In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.