It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

On every mountain height is rest.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.