I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
All go free when multitudes offend.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life