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

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

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

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

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.