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.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.