It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Success is man's god.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.