If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
To err from the right path is common to mankind.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.