In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
Life is too short for chess.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)