I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

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.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.