If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.