Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.