“Wiles and deceit are female qualities.”

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Know not to revere human things too much.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Suffering brings experience.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

Honor modesty more than your life.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.