How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.