Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.