It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.
The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.