No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Success is dependant on effort.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?