"Women are always asking for gifts."

"Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long."

"He who is not afraid of death is immortal."

"A man learns more from his mistakes than from his successes."

"There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change."