The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
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.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.