Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.