If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.