We perish with desire."
After the manner of his nation, he abounds in pregnant sentences which might be engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.
"In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful."
"Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts."
"On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at headlong speed."
"The earth is a host who murders his guests."
"Good is what goes on the road of Nature. On the straight way the traveller never misses."
"Alas! till now I had not known
My guide and Fortune's guide are one."
"The understanding's copper coin
Counts not with the gold of love."
"'Tis writ on Paradise's gate,
'Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!'"
"The world is a bride superbly dressed;—