If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.