Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.