Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful save by trial.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands till some one dash it from them.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards—but I am a queen!

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.