But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.