It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.