I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.