The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.