Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.