What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.