Poet

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Success is dependent on effort.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.