Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
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.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.