The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.