As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. - George Chapman

This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?

Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.

He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.