Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

If you want to be loved, be loveable.

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Time is generally the best doctor.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.