So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

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.

Delay not to seize the hour!

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

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Sweet is a grief well ended.