I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
False words do not bring forth fruit.
The tyrant is a child of pride.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.