There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.