Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?