You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
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.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.