Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.