The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Become who you are!

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.