It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
From Aeschylus
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
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