"Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."
"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"o death the healer, scorn thou not, i pray, to come to me: of cureless ills thou art the one physician. pain lays not its touch upon a corpse."
"of all the gods, death only craves not gifts: nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed by hymns of praise. from him alone of all the powers of heaven persuasion holds aloof."
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."
