Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

The reward of pain is experience.