Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.