They said they were an-hungry, sighed forth proverbs – that hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, that meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not corn for the rich men only. With these shreds they vented their complainings.
There is no hatred so great as that of a man who has been made to love a woman against his will.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.