Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.