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.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
The tyrant is a child of pride.
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.