It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.