“Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.”

Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Simple is the speech of truth.

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Fear is stronger than arms.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The reward of suffering is experience.

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

There is no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that I can’t learn how to fly.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.

She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.