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.
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.