Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide….

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation..

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening..

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple..

Truth is often attended with danger..

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place..

Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of grea….

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art..