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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.