Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.