“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Every lover is a soldier.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

My vengeance is my guilt.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

There’s nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.