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Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.