Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

You fix two or three or four houses on a block, (and) the rest mysteriously get fixed on their own.