Longing performs all things

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.