Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life