It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.