Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
Trying is the first step toward failure.
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?