Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.