But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.