Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
No law is quite appropriate for all.
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.