Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.