“Always desire to learn something useful.”

“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”

“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”

“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”

“(...) I, for one, prize lessThe name of king than deeds of kingly power;And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.”

“Those swift to think are not always secure.”

“There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.”