Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.