Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.