Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

People perish not because of lack of faith; they perish because of lack of knowledge! Know yourself!

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.