He that but now looked jolly, plump, and stout,
Like a star shot by Jove, is now gone out;

as it is in Euripides. And it is a vulgar persuasion, that very
handsome persons, when looked upon, oft suffer damage by envy and
an evil eye; for a body at its utmost vigor will through delicacy
very soon admit of changes.

But now that these men are miserably unprovided for an undisturbed
life, you may discern even from what they themselves advance
against others. For they say that those who commit wickedness and
incur the displeasure of the laws live in constant misery and fear,
for, though they may perhaps attain to privacy, yet it is
impossible they should ever be well assured of that privacy; whence
the ever impending fear of the future will not permit them to have
either complacency or assurance in their present circumstances.
But they consider not how they speak all this against themselves.
For a sound and healthy state of body they may indeed oftentimes
possess, but that they should ever be well assured of its
continuance is impossible; and they must of necessity be in
constant disquiet and pain for the body with respect to futurity,
never being able to reach that firm and steadfast assurance which
they expect. But to do no wickedness will contribute nothing to
our assurance; for it is not suffering unjustly but suffering in
itself that is dismaying. Nor can it be a matter of trouble to be
engaged in villanies one's self, and not afflictive to suffer by
the villanies of others. Neither can it be said that the tyranny
of Lachares was less, if it was not more, calamitous to the
Athenians, and that of Dionysius to the Syracusans, than they were
to the tyrants themselves; for it was disturbing that made them be