And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
The tongue of slander
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. Aeschylus