Man Right Literature Death poet A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. - Ovid
Achievement Worth I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. - Ovid
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Maimonides
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. - Soren Kierkegaard