Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?