Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.