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.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
I write a woman's oaths in water.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.