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

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.

call no man happy until he is dead

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing