The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
Life is short and art is long.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.