“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.”

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.

Angry people are not always wise.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.