“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

They can because they think they can.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

No benefits can be expected from war.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Time is flying never to return.

The greatest wealth is health.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all.

The past is only going to cause you more pain. Stay away from it.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.