The best things beyond their measure cloy.
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!