Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

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.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.