I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
Wine is earth's answer to the sun.