Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.