“Follow your own star!”
“In His will is our peace.”
“These have not the hope to die.”
“Abandon all hope, you who enter here!”
“I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
“Will cannot be quenched against its will.”
“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.”
“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
“For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”
“Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”
“This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.”
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.”