There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

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