Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.