But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.