Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.
There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come tono harm hereafter, and even when the blessed go...
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
Lighthearted boys and girlswere harvesting the grapes in woven baskets, while on a resonant harp a boy among themplayed a tune of longing, singing lowwith delicate voice a summer dirge. The others,bre...
Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail.
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time
Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.