Evil events from evil causes spring.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.