Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground. - Euripides

It is deplorable, Agamemnon, that men's words should ever seem to speak more loudly than their deeds. Good deeds alone should make the doer eloquent, and bad deeds dress themselves in rotten arguments, not gloze their foulness with fair colours. There are men who make this practice a fine art. Their cleverness, so-called, cannot last long; they all, without exception, come to a bad end.

ينبغي على المرء ألا يأمل في المحال.

And this is a grief beyond the reality, if a man incurs blame for sins that are not his.