Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.