No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.