Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
To women silence gives their proper grace.
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!