Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.