Chance, taking from me things of highest price,
At a dear rate hath taught me to be wise.
6. [INCERTI.]
[He] Knaves' tongues and calumnies no more doth prize
Than the vain buzzing of so many flies.
7. [PINDAR. FRAGM. C.]
His deep, dark heart—bent to supplant—
Is iron, or else adamant.
8. [SOLON. FRAGM. XV.]
What though they boast their riches unto us?
Those cannot say that they are virtuous.
From Of the Diseases of the Mind and the Body: translated from Plutarch (1651).