How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.
Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.