Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Anger is brief madness

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.