“The reward of suffering is experience.”

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.

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.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

I have not need to promise what I cannot do.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

When people tell me they’ve learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people’s experience.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

You can’t create experience, you undergo it.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.

The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.