The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.