“No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.”

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.”

“Friend, have the courageTo care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead.”

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”