Wisdom cometh by suffering.

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.