A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time
After the event, even a fool is wise.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
The long historian of my country's woes.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.