Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.