Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.