Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

What, shall such traces of my birth appear,

And I not follow them! It may not be.

I could not turn away from anyone
Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him.
I know well, being mortal, that my claim
Upon the future is no more than yours.

All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.

You won't listen to reason at all, will you?
No. My mind is my own.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

To women silence is the best ornament.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

I owe more to the dead, with whom
I will spend a much longer time,
than I will ever owe to the living.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.