Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.