It is through suffering that learning comes.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
The words of truth are simple.
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.