Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.