Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.