Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Humble things become the humble.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.