The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.