Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

All is change; all yields its place and goes

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise