When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.