If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.
Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.
Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.