And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.