Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
There exists no more difficult art than living.
True love can fear no one.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.