Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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.
Action achieves more than words.