There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
Silence is an ornament for women.
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.
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.