Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.