Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
We have to believe in free will. We?ve got no choice.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.