Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.