“For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?”

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Time brings all things to pass.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

I ate my grief and swallowed salt tears like they were the only things left on earth to consume.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Gratitude is just as powerful as grief, and no season is ever wasted.

Grief is a species of idleness.