False words do not bring forth fruit.
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
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.
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.