» They are able because they think they are able.
» Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''
» I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
» They can because they think they can.
» You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
» Trust not to much to appearances.
» Age carries all things away, even the mind.
» I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
» Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
» Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.