Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.