How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.